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From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD on a PowerMac?
Date: 7 Mar 1995 23:47:46 GMT
Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia
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In article <1995Mar7.140123.39823@cobra.uni.edu>
kuhtzc0580@cobra.uni.edu (Christian Kuhtz) writes:
>In article <3jaa7i$q4i@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, I wrote:
>> I think you're much more likely to see a port to PReP [sic] hardware.
>
>You mean CHRP, right? (Common Hardware Reference Platform)...

That was what the '[sic]' was for.  CHRP doesn't exist yet (at least, I
can't hold a spec in my hand and say, "This is CHRP").  I have a copy of
the PowerPC Reference Platform specification and if I had the cash, I
would have a machine that claims to be conformant to said spec.

-allen

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